Prey sequel confirmed

The first Prey ended with the promise of a sequel, so this isn't big news, but …

This will hardly come as a surprise to anyone who played through and beat Prey, but Scott Miller of 3DRealms has officially told Next-Gen there will be a sequel to Prey. The game ended with a big fat "Prey will continue" message, so you knew it was coming, but then again, a lot of games pull that trick only to have their sequels yanked out from under them when no one wants to pick up the second game. Psi-Ops, anyone? Luckily, it looks like Prey is selling enough to warrant work on the next installment.

Miller promises work on combat as well as on new game play innovations, which is odd since the original had decent combat and more than enough new ideas. I'm glad they're already thinking ahead, but can you please try to come up with a better reason for us to keep playing? Instead of throwing the same monsters at us over and over, maybe you can make some new ones. How about enemies that make sense, instead of just throwing ghosts in there because a member of the design team was playing Fatal Frame that week. Please?

It's frustrating; Prey could have been such an amazing game, and it ended up being just another shooter despite the great ideas and interesting design put into it. With that much time in production, I would have thought they could have smoothed things over a touch more, but alas, I'm hoping they listen to their critics for the second game. I'm also hoping the next game doesn't take place in an alien's butthole. That was a little much.